Best known for McHale's Navy and beating Frank Sinatra to death in "From Here to Eternity", he won an Oscar for "Marty."
"Sooner or later, there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts," Marty movingly tells his mother at one point in the film. "And one fact I gotta face is that, whatever it is that women like, I ain't got it. I chased after enough girls in my life. I went to enough dances. I got hurt enough. I don't wanna get hurt no more."But in real life, he knew the answer to that dilemma:
The son of Italian immagrants, Ernie enrolled in the US Navy after high school where he served for 10 straight years, fighting in WWII. He was awarded many medals, including the Good Conduct Medal. Fair winds and following seas.
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